Re: I used to be able to tap my screen to turn on my PDA....

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Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2004 05:52:46 GMT

You may very well be right I've been around many failed switches, but
no failed touch-screens (not even unfailed touch-screens <g>.)

It would be interesting to know other's experiences with PDA
touch-screens and switches. Perhaps others will let us know.

AlanS wrote:
> Screen tapping is mechanical too, the pressure sensitive action can fail-
> its just another screen layer set up to detect the pressure of contact.
> I'd bet changing the whole screen (they are built as a unit with this layer
> part of the assembly) is a lot more expensive than just changing the switch
> (unless it's the fixed cost repair that many places seem to use now).
>
> I've had touch screen failures in the past and it was around £125 to replace
> the greyscale screen- non-screen repairs were around £75. I wonder what
> these colour screens cost?
> (Psion 5mx http://www.posltd.com/servicing.htm )
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> "Norm C" <normc@socal.rr.com> wrote in message
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>>Yes, that was it.
>>
>>I didn't try to figure out why it wasn't working. I just made the power
>>off time very long amd the dim time very short. Now it works again.
>>
>>Sven, my interest in this is because I see the mechanical switches as
>>the weakest part of the device, so I want to minimize their use.
>>
>>AlanS wrote:
>>
>>>I don't think there is such a setting, but ........
>>>
>>>Did you not have a long time set before switchoff, but with the
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> backlight
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>>>set to turn off fairly quickly?
>>>In Settings, Backlight there is a setting for turning the backlight off
>>>after x minutes, and a setting to turn it back on again if the screen is
>>>tapped. If the screen is set here to turn off after 1 minute if the
>
> device
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>>>is not used....
>>>then in Power, Settings, Advanced tab- the device is not set to turn off
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> the
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>>>power ....
>>>
>>>This should give the effect you are talking about. But I didn't try it
>>>.......
>>>
>>>Let us know if this was the way it worked please.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>"Norm C" <normc@socal.rr.com> wrote in message
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>>>
>>>>Now I can't. I have gone through every setting, two or three times,
>>>>trying to find any other setting than the 'Turn on Device in Suspend
>>>>Mode' if a button is pushed. That function is fine.
>>>>
>>>>Can someone help me find the setting or whatever I am missing?
>>>>
>>>>TIA
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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